Data centers are critical, energy-hungry infrastructures that run large-scale Internet-based
services. Energy consumption models are pivotal in designing and optimizing energy …

Data centers (DCs), owing to the exponential growth of Internet services, have emerged as
an irreplaceable and crucial infrastructure to power this ever-growing trend. A DC typically …

Cloud computing has a shared set of resources, including physical servers, networks,
storage, and user applications. Resource allocation is a critical issue for cloud computing …

Although information and communications technologies (ICTs) have the potential of
enabling powerful social, economic and environmental benefits, ICT systems give a non …

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) opened up new opportunities in networking with its
concept of the segregated control plane from the data-forwarding hardware, which enables …

Software-Defined Networking not only addresses the shortcoming of traditional network
technologies in dealing with frequent and immediate changes in cloud data centers but also …

With the proliferation of wireless devices, wireless networks in various forms have become
global information infrastructure and an important part of our daily life, which, at the same …

Power management of cloud data centers has received great attention from industry and
academia as they are expensive to operate due to their high energy consumption. While …

Data center power optimization has recently received a great deal of research attention. For
example, server consolidation has been demonstrated as one of the most effective energy …

Abstract Software Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm has the benefits of programmable
network elements by separating the control and the forwarding planes, efficiency through …